And the Winner is...

Just back from Brisneyland (being Brisbane for the uninitiated) having attended the Aurealis Awards night where, if you'll recall, Lamplighter was shortlisted in the Best Young Adult Novel category. Alas alak, I have to content myself with the shortlisting for I can reveal to you all now that Melina Marchetta's (of On the Jellicoe Road and Looking for Alibrandi fame) first foray into the spec fic...

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Time to get European.

Today being the last day before I trip off to Brisbane to attend the Aurealis Awards I though I would share a bit more of y process with you (how the two are related I do not know, but it makes for a beginning to a post, so I am running with it).What I have for show and tell today are a couple conceptual sketches completed for Book 3, done to help...

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Cybils Fantasy/SciFi Shortlist 2008

Well, it is near two weeks since the peep of the year and have you heard anything from me..?!I am very chuffed to break silence (as it were), do as others have done and post up a shortlist from the up and coming Cybils Awards in my own chosen genre, Fantasy & Science Fiction:Cabinet of Wonders written by Marie Rutkoski, MacmillanGraveyard Book written by Neil Gaiman, HarperCollinsMagic Thief written...

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from: Ben O.to: Tiandate: Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:32 PMsubject: Please tell me my friend's tattoo means "understand"Hi Tian,I hope you don't mind me asking, but my friend just got this tattoo and says it means "listen/understand". I've seen enough of Hanzi Smatter to cringe even before I know how bad it is. What's the verdict?Regards,Ben O.We don't...

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from: Tomasto: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:08 PMsubject: hanzi smatterHello, Thought I should send this contribution to your (awesome) blog. Found it on a Swedish community site, the proud owner of the tattoo claims that it says "GUN" (a Swedish female given name, not the thing you use to shoot people). I'm not...

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